• Thumbnail for Half Dome
    Half Dome is a quartz monzonite batholith at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California. It is a well-known rock formation...
    26 KB (2,820 words) - 23:51, 12 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome
    The Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome was the first Grade VI big wall climbing route in the United States. It was first climbed in 1957 by a team consisting...
    7 KB (866 words) - 16:19, 7 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dome
    A dome (from Latin domus) is an architectural element similar to the hollow upper half of a sphere. There is significant overlap with the term cupola,...
    176 KB (21,097 words) - 06:22, 18 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Monolith, the Face of Half Dome
    Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California is a black and white photograph taken by Ansel Adams in 1927 that depicts the western face of Half Dome...
    11 KB (1,341 words) - 04:09, 10 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ansel Adams
    the High Sierras, which included his famous image Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, which was taken with his Korona view camera, using glass plates and a...
    106 KB (10,991 words) - 04:43, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sentinel Dome
    and surroundings. One can see Half Dome, El Capitan, Yosemite Falls, North Dome, Basket Dome, and much more. Sentinel Dome provides a 360 degree view of...
    5 KB (427 words) - 19:06, 9 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Little Yosemite Valley
    Valley provides access to nearby destinations such as the back side of Half Dome, Clouds Rest and the High Sierra Camp at Merced Lake. Little Yosemite...
    13 KB (1,700 words) - 01:55, 30 November 2021
  • Half Dome Nunatak (82°27′S 159°14′E / 82.450°S 159.233°E / -82.450; 159.233) is a nunatak lying 2 nautical miles (4 km) south of the Cobham Range in...
    753 bytes (117 words) - 15:34, 8 July 2022
  • Thumbnail for Half Dome Granodiorite
    Half Dome Granodiorite is granodiorite (see also granite) found in a region on and near Half Dome, in Yosemite National Park, California, United States...
    5 KB (460 words) - 13:02, 24 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Alex Honnold
    link-up of Mount Watkins, The Nose, and the Regular Northwest Face of Half Dome. In 2015, he won a Piolet d'Or in alpine climbing with Tommy Caldwell...
    50 KB (4,508 words) - 23:03, 17 January 2025
  • Retrieved November 22, 2021. "Bumblebee – Sector 7 Adventures: The Battle at Half Dome Comic Preview – Transformers News – TFW2005". Transformer World 2005 –...
    133 KB (9,730 words) - 21:14, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Yosemite National Park
    with widely spaced joints is responsible for producing domes such as Half Dome and North Dome and inset arches like Royal Arches. Yosemite Valley represents...
    117 KB (10,990 words) - 05:37, 14 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for The North Face
    in 1968 to supply climbers, the company's logo draws inspiration from Half Dome, a distinct rock formation rising over 8,700 feet (2,700 m) above sea...
    16 KB (1,357 words) - 06:21, 13 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Glacier Point
    fragments, all deeply weathered, of Half Dome quartz monzonite, the light-colored granite of which not only Half Dome, but all of the Little Yosemite and...
    7 KB (843 words) - 19:07, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yosemite Valley
    500 ft (910–1,070 m) deep, surrounded by high granite summits such as Half Dome and El Capitan, and densely forested with pines. The valley is drained...
    34 KB (3,954 words) - 06:49, 6 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Semi-dome
    In architecture, a semi-dome (or half-dome) is a half dome that covers a semi-circular area in a building. Semi-domes are a common feature of apses in...
    6 KB (609 words) - 01:57, 6 May 2024
  • A dome is a self-supporting structural element of architecture that resembles the hollow upper half of a sphere. Every dome in the world which was the...
    54 KB (1,986 words) - 08:30, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lembert Dome
    Lembert Dome is a granite dome rock formation in Yosemite National Park in the US state of California. The dome soars 800 feet (240 m) above Tuolumne...
    4 KB (343 words) - 22:34, 11 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for The Nose (El Capitan)
    Northwest Face of Half Dome, and among those coveting it was Californian Warren Harding (Harding made an unsuccessful attempt on Half Dome in 1955, and returned...
    23 KB (2,222 words) - 16:54, 21 October 2024
  • Trail Half Dome Panorama Trail from Glacier Point Four Mile Trail from Glacier Point McGurk Meadow Ostrander Lake Mono Meadow Taft Point Sentinel Dome Chilnualna...
    3 KB (223 words) - 09:06, 27 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ahwahnechee
    Yosemite Valley Tesa'ak (Teh-sa-ahk'): Half Dome (South Dome) - name of a Mono woman for whom Half Dome was named. Half Dome resembled a Mono woman's head and...
    18 KB (2,146 words) - 23:20, 15 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Fresno Dome
    season. The dome offers several technical free climbs rated class 5 or better, with "Guides in a Snowbank" rated at 5.10a. Half Dome Lembert Dome Batholith...
    3 KB (261 words) - 19:00, 5 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Mist Trail
    a side trip to the top of Half Dome, using cables to climb the rock. Permits must be obtained in advance to hike Half Dome, and back country permits are...
    6 KB (750 words) - 23:58, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for North face (Fairview Dome)
    The North Face of Fairview Dome also known as the Regular Route of Fairview Dome is a technical rock climbing route in Tuolumne Meadows of Yosemite National...
    2 KB (88 words) - 14:33, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Millennium Dome
    The Millennium Dome was the original name of the large dome-shaped building on the Greenwich Peninsula in South East London, England, which housed a major...
    41 KB (4,624 words) - 05:02, 16 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Tunnel View
    surrounding features, such as the southwest face of El Capitan on the left, Half Dome on axis, and Bridalveil Fall on the right. For many arriving by road,...
    3 KB (279 words) - 02:43, 29 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for North Dome
    North Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, California. It is the southernmost summit of Indian Ridge, 0.6 miles (1.0 km) north of Washington...
    2 KB (143 words) - 03:49, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for El Capitan
    Dice, All Threes (2024). Horsetail Fall (Yosemite) Sentinel Dome Stawamus Chief Half Dome This is the first ascent accomplished on a rock face. It is...
    42 KB (4,232 words) - 07:37, 11 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Christ Pantocrator
    of Christ Pantokrator occupies the space in the central dome of the church, in the half-dome of the apse, or on the nave vault. Some scholars (Latourette...
    12 KB (1,386 words) - 03:18, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for John Muir Trail
    terminus in Yosemite Valley, the trail runs southeast, passing south of Half Dome and then on to Tuolumne Meadows. From Tuolumne Meadows the trail turns...
    33 KB (3,243 words) - 05:02, 25 November 2024